Buffing or polishing wheel.



F. M. LEV-l'.A BUFFING 0B POLISHING WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED APR. 27, 1908.

Patented Feb.9, 1909.

WTNESSES ay 2 Y Arm/mns UNITED STATES. PATENT 'OFFICE?. i A FRANK MARTIN i.EvET'T, 4or NEW roi-mpx. v f

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. e, 190e.

Applleaticuled April 27, 1908.l Serial No. 429,464.

To all 'whom 'it 'may concern:

LEvE'r'r, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bulling or Polishing Wheel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. n

The invention relates to bulling orpolishwheels made of cloth or other textile fa ric, and its object is to provide a new and improved buftng or olishlng wheel, formed of layers or pieces oilcloth arranged in such a manner that the peripheral edge of the Wheel is not liable tofray or unravel, thus insuring uniform wear of the wheel 'and causing true running thereof at .all times.

The invention'consists of lnovel features and parts and combinations of the same,

which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate correspondin 'parts in all the views.

. Figure l1 is a p an view of a strip of biascut fabric from which the wheelisformed,

-either by cutting the same into pieces or spirally winding the stri 'into a' desired number of layers;'Fig. 2 1s a plan view of one of the pieces of the wheel; Fig. 3 is a the buiiing or polishing wheel,

face view o part of one of the disk covers being broken ont; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of adjacent overlapping pieces; Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional side elevation 'of the baiting or polishing wheel, the section being on tthe line 5 5 of Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a .perspective view of a modified form of the wheel; and Fig. 7 is a plan view showing the bias-cut strip wound spirally to form the wheel. A'

A strip A of a Woven fabric material -cut straight, but preferably on the bias, is gathered or plaited or cut up into keystone 'shaped-pieces A', and the strip vA (see Fig.

7) or the pieces A are arranged around a hub or center piece B (see Fig. 3), so as tol pleces of the v ripheral face is produced, and which face isV Be it lmown that I, FRANK MARTIN' not weaker at any oint than at another and the face is not liab e to fray orravel.

The superimposed layers A and the ccnter-B are preferably covered at opposite be doubled up, as indicated in Fig. 6, and,A

the doubled up pieces arranged around the center B with the' side edges of the piecesfj overlapping, butin this case the peripheral face of the bufling or polishing wheel is also not liable to unravel or fray.

In order to further strengthen the woven material of the bufling wheel, and make the threads stronger and less-liable to ravel, the woven material is passed'` through an adhesive substance, .such as mucilage, glue, gum, wax, oil, printers ink, etc., etc;

It is understood that I do not limit myself to any particular material of which the Woven fabric is made, as cotton, wool, leather, wood and other fibers, etc., may be used, but ineach case the peripheral edge of the wheel is renderednon-raveling by arranging the warp and weft threads of the woven fabric as described.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire 4to secure by Letters Patent: l

1. A buiing or polishing wheel made of continuous strips of woven fabric material, the strips being gathered around the hub or center of the wheel, forming a wheel of superimposed layers of the woven material.

2. A buliing or "polishing wheel made of bias-cut-strips of a woven fabric material, gathered around. 'a hub or center piece to forma disk, the disks being-superlmposed until the desired .thickness is attained.

3. A buing or olishing wheel built up of bias cut woven fabric material, to form a wheel,.theperipheral edge of which presents a bias cut surface.

4, Anpolishing or buting wheel made of strips of biasA cut woven vfabric material passed. through an adhesive subst-ance and gathered, or arranged around the hub of the wheel.

5. A'buiiing or olishing wheel' made of Y bias cut' woven abrio material forming superimposed layers of woven mater1al, to form a wheel, the' peripheral edge of which presents 'a continuous ias cut surface.

6. A buing or polishing wheel buill up name to this specification in the presence of ofI biis iut fvlvoven afbricdmaterial It form l two subscribing Witnesses. l wiee ,t et rea so sai materia ein a arranged to radiate from, the ceneer ofthe FRANK MARTLN LEVET'L Wheel so as to resent a bias cut edge on Witnesses: the periphery ofp the Wheel. ALEXANDER LEVETT,

n testimony whereof I have signed my E. MAYGLOTHLING. 

